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...money for the carrier by an end run around the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by pressuring Congress and convincing Defense Secretary Lovett. With quiet confidence, the Navy thinks it can get enough money to complete its program of ten supercarriers. In desperation, the Air Force is starting to squawk covertly through its unofficial mouthpiece, Air Force magazine, and publicly in the steel-edged speeches of Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric...
Actually the Navy could not squawk very much, since the things it suppressed were already generally known. By "violating" censorship, the U.P. had scaled the stunt down to size...
...antennas more than 3,000 ft. above the valley floor. Waves of such extreme low frequency are nondirectional; they spread in all directions, and Big Jim signals will reach any part of the world. They also penetrate the ground and the sea for a considerable distance. From its gigantic squawk box at Jim Creek, the Navy can give orders to all its scattered ships, even to atomic submarines that need never cruise on the surface...
Each ally had its special squawk...
...riches. The Civil Aeronautics Board announced that it will reduce their airmail pay from an average 63? a ton-mile to 45?, will order them to refund some $5,000,000 on airmail overpayments dating back to 1947. The airlines were doing so well they raised not a single squawk. With the new 45? rate which CAB proposes as the actual cost-plus-reasonable-profit of carrying the mail, the Big Four will reach a historic milestone: for the first time, all were officially free of any Government subsidy...